Prayer Circle vs Get Prayer Chain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Prayer Circle
This app facilitates sharing prayer requests and commitments within communities like friends, small groups, or churches. It allows users to track answered prayers as a record of faithfulness and offers features for focused prayer sessions and private group communication.
- Share detailed prayer requests
- Commit to praying for others
- Track answered prayers as monuments
- Create private groups and church communities
- Engage in focused prayer sessions
- Control prayer request visibility
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Prayer Circle connects you with friends, small groups, and churches to share prayer requests, commit to praying for one another, and celebrate when God answers! SHARE PRAYER REQUESTS Create detailed prayer requests with topics and descriptions. Choose who sees each request — keep it private, share with friends, post to a group, or make it public. Update your prayers as situations evolve so your community can easily follow along. COMMIT TO PRAY When someone shares a request, tap "Commit to Pray" to let them know you're interceding for them. See all the prayers you've committed to in one place so you never forget to follow through. ANSWERED PRAYER MONUMENTS When God answers, mark prayers as answered. They become Monuments — a growing record of faithfulness you can look back on whenever you need encouragement. It's your personal journal of how God has moved. GROUPS & SMALL GROUPS Create prayer groups for your Bible study, small group, or any circle of friends. Share requests privately within your group and grow together in prayer. CHURCH COMMUNITIES Churches can set up a dedicated space where members submit prayer requests for pastoral review before sharing with the congregation. Sensitive needs are handled with care and discretion. PRAY NOW SESSIONS Build consistency with focused prayer sessions. Set a timer, work through your prayer list, and develop a daily habit. Configure reminders to help you stay committed. BUILT FOR COMMUNITY Add friends, send encouragement, and stay connected to the people you care about. Prayer Circle makes it easy to bear one another's burdens in a meaningful, organized way. PRIVACY FIRST Your prayers are your own. You control the visibility of every request. We never sell your data, show ads, or use your prayer content for any purpose beyond serving you and your community. Prayer Circle is free to download and use. Join today and experience what it means to truly pray together. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://www.spiritualdisapplines.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.spiritualdisapplines.com/privacy
Get Prayer Chain
Organize all your prayer requests in one place. Add names, track updates, and receive gentle reminders. Your prayer list is private and accessible on your device.
- Organize prayer requests
- Track prayer updates
- Set custom reminders
- Add photos to requests
- Private and secure
- Works on phone and tablet
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Everyone you're praying for, in one place. The scrap of paper in the back of the missal, the note in your phone, the name you were sure you'd remember — Prayer Chain gathers all of it into one list that doesn't lose things. Add the people on your heart, write down how they're doing as things change, and get a quiet nudge at a time you choose. Nothing you add is seen by anyone else. It is simply your list. THREE THINGS, AND THAT'S THE WHOLE APP Add who you're praying for A name and a few words is enough. Type who is on your heart and what they're facing, and save it. It is on your list from that second. Pray through your list Open the app and there they all are, grouped by what they're going through — illness, surgery, a loss, a thanksgiving — so you are not trying to hold the whole list in your head. Keep track of how it went Surgery went well. The results came back. Write it down, and the note stays with that person, so you can look back at what you prayed for and what happened. WHAT'S INSIDE • A prayer history for everyone on your list, so nobody quietly falls off • Add a photo if it helps you picture the person you're praying for • A link to a family's own care page, sitting right beside their request • Reminders at times you choose — or none at all, and the app will never once interrupt you • Large text and dark mode, built in • Works on phone and tablet, with the same list wherever you pick it up YOU DO NOT NEED AN ACCOUNT Choose "Use privately on this device" the first time you open Prayer Chain, and everything you write stays in your own device's storage. It is never transmitted to us or to anyone else. We cannot read it, and we do not know it exists. That is the whole app, working, with nothing to sign up for. IF YOUR PARISH OR GROUP USES PRAYER CHAIN Some parishes and prayer groups run a shared chain, so when one member offers a request, the whole group is praying for that person. If yours does, they'll give you a code to join, and an administrator approves you. In a shared chain, what you post is visible to the other approved members of that group and to nobody else. Groups are kept separate on the server, not merely hidden in the app. A request you mark personal is visible only to you. You can report anything that doesn't belong, and block a member whose posts you would rather not see. PRIVACY Prayer requests are personal, and often they are about somebody else — an illness, a surgery, a bereavement. We treat them that way. • No advertising, and there never will be any • No analytics, no third-party tracking, no advertising identifier • Nothing you write is ever sold or rented • Delete your account at any time — immediately in the app, or by asking us Prayer Chain is not a medical service and is not a health record. Full terms and privacy policy: https://getprayerchain.com/privacy.html Made by KVC, Inc. in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Get Prayer Chain at every 2 days against Prayer Circle's monthly. Get Prayer Chain also leads on device support (3 vs 1). Prayer Circle's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Prayer Circle against 5.0 for Get Prayer Chain. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Prayer Circle ships an update monthly, Get Prayer Chain every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Prayer Circle | Get Prayer Chain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Bryce Bengtson | KVC, Inc. |
Customer experience
Prayer Circle
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In-app purchases
Prayer Circle
No in-app purchases
Get Prayer Chain
No in-app purchases
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